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Favorite tree tether

bigmike23

bigmike23

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Was going through all my stuff and taking count on gear, I cannot find my tree tether anywhere. Gone like a fart in the wind.
Looking at some new stuff. The WLR feather lite looks interesting but obscenely expensive. What tickles your fancy nowadays
 
bigmike23 said:
Was going through all my stuff and taking count on gear, I cannot find my tree tether anywhere. Gone like a fart in the wind.
Looking at some new stuff. The WLR feather lite looks interesting but obscenely expensive. What tickles your fancy nowadays
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Paracord seems popular :grinning:

I’m using Oplux myself, with a full bury Amsteel lineman’s that I make my redundant tether when I get to hunting height.
 
I use the latitude vapor 8mm. Works pretty good. I will mention tx5 came out with a 5mm tether that is catching my eye minus it’s sold out rn. I like a soft rope tether for girth hitching if I see the need to.
 
arbsession.com

Edelrid Swift Protect Pro Dry 8.9mm Tether/Lineman Belt

Not ANSI rated - With sewn eye ABS is 4000lb when pulled straight. The Swift Protect Pro Dry is the first dynamic single rope with built-in cut resistance. This means high-strength aramid fibers are integrated into the rope sheath during the braiding process. This increases the cut resistance of...
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I have Canyon C-IV, Canyon Elite and Resc Tech, but I’m still using the same old REI 8mm PMI cord for my tether and LB.
 
GCTerpfan said:
arbsession.com

Edelrid Swift Protect Pro Dry 8.9mm Tether/Lineman Belt

Not ANSI rated - With sewn eye ABS is 4000lb when pulled straight. The Swift Protect Pro Dry is the first dynamic single rope with built-in cut resistance. This means high-strength aramid fibers are integrated into the rope sheath during the braiding process. This increases the cut resistance of...
arbsession.com arbsession.com
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What rope do you use for the friction hitch on this?
 
Dcomer55 said:
What rope do you use for the friction hitch on this?
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I use the same main tether rope.

Woods Hunting Saddles sells a 7 mm sewn eye to eye prusik (from Bluewater, I believe) that works great on it with a distel hitch. I always add another wrap to my distel hitches though (slid down the tether on a different set up years ago....and now I'm a bit paranoid of that).

With a tender, it works great.
 
I've used an 8.5' 8mm RescTech tether with a 5" sewn eye for two years now, pretty much where I sit lol. Plain Jane... The hitch is 6mm Probe tied in an Arbsession Hitch with a TX-5 tender.
 
GCTerpfan said:
6mm TRC

doublesteps.com

Sterling 6mm TRC

Sterling 6mm TRC – this is the recommended prusik cord for 8mm OpLux according to Sterling. Sold by the foot, enter quantity as the number of feet that you want and it will come in one continuous l…
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That probably bites that 9mm (excuse me.....8.9 mm) rope pretty well

what hitch are you using and how many wraps?
 
Bowtie747 said:
I use the latitude vapor 8mm. Works pretty good. I will mention tx5 came out with a 5mm tether that is catching my eye minus it’s sold out rn. I like a soft rope tether for girth hitching if I see the need to.
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That tx5 tether you mentioned is back in stack
 
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